My earliest books had titles like THE MAN HOW HE STOLE WATER, which I think pretty much sums up the fact that I wasn’t a genius writer prodigy at age 7. I’m still growing and evolving, but happily I some novels under my belt like DONUT DAYS and THE IMPLOSION OF AGGIE WINCHESTER (August 2011). My nonfiction MAKE THINGS HAPPEN: THE KEY TO NETWORKING FOR TEENS is on shelves as well.
I’d love it if you stopped by my website, larawrites.com
LARA’S BOOKS
(Putnam Juvenile)
Donut Days’ main character, Emma Goiner, has a lot going on. Her best friend’s not speaking to her, a boy she’s known all her life is suddenly smokin’ hot, she’s at a camp-out for the opening of a donut shop, and oh yes—her evangelical pastor parents may lose their church. And that’s just this weekend. Suddenly, sixteen-year-old Emma has to make some serious choices: creationism or evolution, faith or freedom, Harley bikers or Frodo wannabes, and of course, cruller or glazed.
(Putnam Juvenile)
Sixteen-year-old Aggie Winchester is that rare mix of principal’s kid and Goth girl — a rebel, or so she’d like to think. The truth is, she doesn’t know who she is or who she wants to be. She only knows she doesn’t want to be a target. Her dark makeup and clothes, along with her tough best friend, Syliva, who bullies freshman and cheerleaders alike, make Aggie feel safe. She doesn’t know what she’d do without Sylvia always having her back.
But when Sylvia finds herself pregnant and determined to turn her booty calls with the most popular boy in school into something real — like family — Aggie finds herself utterly alone and, even worse, the target of her own best friend. Add to that an ex-boyfriend who maybe wants to get back together or maybe just wants to have sex; a new boy with equally unclear intentions; and per principal mom who might be involved in the school scandal of the century, and Aggie’s having a trying junior year. In fact, she’s ready to implode.